Posted on: October 7, 2024
Oresko1
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Shadows: Awakening
Description
Shadows: Awakening is the new adventure in the Heretic Kingdoms saga. After the members of the secret council known as the Penta Nera are assassinated, their souls are consumed by the Devourers – evil demons which possess the ability to absorb the memories and personalities of the souls they acquire and materialize them as their puppets. Re-emerging into the mortal realm once again, the demonic Penta Nera continue their quest for power and immortality, but at what cost?
Shadows: Awakening is a unique, isometric single-player RPG with real-time tactical combat. You take control of a demon summoned from the Shadow Realm – the Devourer – to consume the souls of long-dead heroes and embark on an epic adventure with challenging gameplay, a gripping storyline and enchanting graphics. Do you have the focus and wits to master the world of the Heretic Kingdoms? Gather your party, control powerful heroes and use their skills to your advantage. But who is in charge… the demon, or the souls that it has devoured? It's up to you to either thwart a major threat and save the world, or to plunge it into complete disaster…
Features
- A Tale of Two Worlds – In a parallel universe inhabited by demons and monsters; seamlessly switch between the Shadow Realm and the mortal plane and witness a gripping storyline in a world full of myths, destinies and legendary creatures.
- Unique Party System – multiple characters in one demon, each retaining their own personalities with internal dialogues, rivalries and communication between the characters.
- Wide variety of Skills and Characters – Choose from 3 heroes, each with their own personal storylines, quests and dialogues. Consume the souls of 14 playable characters, each with their own unique skillsets, like Kalig the Bandit King and Evia, Daughter of Fire.
- Tactical Real-Time Combat – Combine the skills of your various characters to maximize the effects of your devastating skills and spells.
- Extensive Gameplay – 20+ hours for a single playthrough, but with substantial options for replayability which accumulate to 60+ hours for the full experience.
- Challenging Puzzles – Complex puzzles are scattered throughout the game, and will take you through a vibrant set of locations, from rustic towns to the deepest and darkest of dungeons.
- Crafting and Looting System – Expanded crafting and looting system will let you use rewards to configure the ultimate adventurer.
- Fully Voiced – All dialogues are fully narrated, including actors like Tom Baker.
Shadows: Awakening Copyright © 2018 Kalypso Media Group GmbH. Published by Kalypso Media Group GmbH. Developed by Games Farm. Games Farm and Games Farm logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Games Farm, s.r.o. in EU, US and/or other countries. All rights reserved. All other logos, copyrights and trademarks are property of their respective owner.
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38.5 h Completionist
28 h All Styles
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GamingTrend
85/100
Shadows: Awakening is a damn good action-RPG. The combat is quick and varied while the characters are interesting. While the story lacks originality, it is still well written and allows the different characters to shine. There are a lot of different elements at play, and they all work together to create a fantastic experience.
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8/10
Heretic Kingdoms remains a franchise with great potential, so I'm very curious to see where developers are going to go from here. Obviously, there's room to improve the formula, but I'd like to see something new as well.
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8/10
Shadows: Awakening proves that loot-focused action-RPGs can feature a deep narrative with meaningful side quests. The unique party system works in unison with the combat mechanics, allowing you to put together a devastating combination of attacks. Featuring a lengthy narrative, and reason to play through multiple times, this unassuming title may be the sleeper hit you have been looking for.
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Posted on: June 28, 2024
IronCorg
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
Glad the game was free
I really disliked most of the puzzles this game offers. Why would anyone build a wall of fire traps to keep someone/something out and then put the lever to turn off the fire traps right at the entrance? And then have the lever turn off only 1-2 traps on the wall at a time as you slowly walk the corridor waiting for the next flame to turn off? What is even the point of this? There's nothing to figure out with this puzzle, other than how dumb this idea was. Also dying is not a puzzle, especially without any clues pointing out that maybe you should just go ahead and die instead of running in a circle for 5 minutes. There were a few genuine puzzles but mostly those just involve figuring out which piece of a circle goes where and how to get it there. The rest are just pull a series of levers in a specific order at the right times. I also didn't like how they didn't give more indication on one of the puppet choices. It's simply go one way you get this guy, head the other direction and you get the other. They don't give any clues that you would get locked into a puppet or what either puppet would be like. I like making choices, I don't like the game hiding choices behind arbituary actions/dialogues. Other than those main gripes, the combat was lackluster, the skills lackluster, and the loot lackluster with not much to say postive, or negative, about them. Mostly it's a meh game with a lot of annoyances that seem to be there just to annoy the player.
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Posted on: April 6, 2025
mr.MiADo
Verified ownerGames: 214 Reviews: 13
Intresting
Quests hards, many enemy, storyline like!
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Posted on: April 10, 2025
Hollow_Cel
Verified ownerGames: 168 Reviews: 1
awesome game
Fun and fresh aproach of this genre
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Posted on: April 21, 2025
brubes2005
Verified ownerGames: 184 Reviews: 2
very awesome
Great graphics, fun to explore, good quest length and area detail.
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